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Originally Posted by Antigonish
I moved back to Saskatoon this month and moved into the Clarence/Cumberland/8th area, an area I wasn't previously well versed in, so I do my evening walks everywhere around this part of the city and walking down Melrose or Eastlake is like some barren wasteland of grossly underutilized streetscape. Those two streets in particular must be 4 lanes wide + street parking with no real activity going on. From 8th straight south all the way to Taylor.
Perhaps the city should consider rezoning that whole strip for infill and either creating a treed median (similar to Victoria) or redesign the street with a center median reserved for future BRT (or tram!!!) to accommodate the hypothetical infill.
Very few of the houses in this area seem architecturally important, many look like basic semi-spruced up crack shacks. Seems prime for some urban renewal (the good kind though)
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Overbuilt streets are such a trademark here. Don't get me started on the downtown core. And yet, at the same time, this is a city that struggles to fill potholes and keep lane markings painted, or to approve urban developments that would put existing infrastructure to better use. Infill in the areas you mention will be a very slow, painful process. Nothing happens here without complaints from people who want Saskatoon to be a small town rather than a city.
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